Orban: "A referendum on sanctions against Moscow in Hungary"

Hungarian President Viktor Orban, in a speech in Parliament, announced his intention to

to ascertain the opinion of Hungarians on the

, as reported by the Magyar Nemzet newspaper, relaunched by the agency of Russian press Tass. 

"The sanctions against Russia were introduced in an undemocratic way, because it was a decision of the Brussels bureaucrats, for which European citizens are paying," Orban said, adding that

and " for the first time in Europe, in Hungary we will ask for an opinion on sanctions ”. 

For Orban, the sanctions "imposed by Brussels" on Russia are

, as Ria Novosti reports. 

“The reason for the economic woes is Brussels' response to the crisis in Ukraine, due to the sanctions energy prices have risen several times.

The increase in energy prices has caused

- specifies Orban -.

These terrible 'energy prices' are not the result of economic processes.

The sanctions have unequivocally caused a huge increase in energy prices.

Therefore, it is not the economy, but politics, or the decisions of Brussels, that are responsible for the increase in energy prices ”. 

According to Orban, since February

and the sanctions, in his opinion, have had the opposite effect: "Europeans have become poorer and Russia is richer," he said. the Hungarian premier, as reported by Tass. 

The Hungarian premier then said he was convinced that "if the sanctions imposed on Russia are lifted, the European economy will be

".